Definition of wash

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Wash (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore..

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Washerwoman :: Washerwoman (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.
Pan :: Pan (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan..
Swat :: Swashy (a.) Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash..
Buck :: Buck (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Lotion :: Lotion (n.) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair..
Washed :: Washed (imp. & p. p.) of Was.
Longitude :: Longitude (n.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74ยก or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich..
Strale :: Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder..
Dirt :: Dirt (n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing..
Hushing :: Hushing (n.) The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming..
Laver :: Laver (n.) That which washes or cleanses.
Outscouring :: Outscouring (n.) That which is scoured out o/ washed out.
Dentilave :: Dentilave (n.) A wash for cleaning the teeth.
Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.
Causally :: Causally (n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing..
Sweepy :: Sweepwasher (n.) One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used..
Rushbuckler :: Rushbuckler (n.) A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.
Swill :: Swill (n.) The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings..
Stain :: Stain (v. t.) To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass..
Washerwomen :: Washerwomen (pl. ) of Washerwoma.
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